SUMMER COMMUNITY BAND TO PERFORM SUNDAY AT ECU

Posted on: June 22, 2012

The Summer Community Band, which includes students from junior high to graduate school, teachers and professors, area band directors, business people, medical professionals, a newspaper publisher and community members, will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday [JUNE 24] in the Ataloa Theatre in the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center. Admission is free.

“It should be a fun concert,” said Dr. Allen Correll, ECU band director. “There will be ice cream and cookies afterward in the lobby of the fine arts center.”

Correll will open the concert with George Gershwin’s “Strike Up the Band,” followed by the March from Gustav Holst’s “Second Suite for Military Band in F major.”

Also on the program are “Down A Country Lane” by Aaron Copland, “American Barndance” by Richard Saucedo, “Indiana (Way Back Home Again In)” by Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley and “The Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Phillip Sousa.

Eric Hall, Ada High School band director, will conduct “Haven’t Met You Yet” by Michael Bublé, Alan Chang and Amy Foster and the theme from “Hawaii Five-O” by Morton Stevens.

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